Infrastructure Professionals Enterprise (IPE) is a leading international development sector consultancy firm with offices in India and UK. IPE has been working with International support agencies like ADB, World Bank, DFID, USAID, JBIC, JICA, UNICEF, UNDP, DANIDA, African Capacity Building Foundation-Zimbabwe and GTZ across South Asia, South-East Asia, parts of Africa and Middle East. IPE brings with it experience of successfully implementing projects in India, Indonesia, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Palestine, Jordan, Ghana, Bhutan, Vietnam and United Kingdom etc. Our pool of resources with staff strength of over 100 professionals and a database of over 300 experienced professionals bring together from diverse disciplines, including Budgeting experts, finance and institutional experts, economists, environmental experts, information technology experts, sociologists, health and nutrition experts, urban and regional planners, architects and engineers, development experts, accountancy and management experts, sociologists, anthropologists, etc
We are currently seeking Procurement Specialists for an upcoming opportunity in Bihar for DFID assisted Technical and Management Support to the Bihar Reform Programme. The desired person should have experience/ exposure of working in the Government sector and in BIHAR
Tasks:
• Assist in the procurement process for the bids, and provide support in the selection of the short lists and pre-qualification of suppliers (staff,consultant, hardware, etc.) where necessary. • Assist in monitoring the receipt of the Suppliers and Consultants invoices and ensure the request does not exceed the contract allowance. • Ensure that the funds received from DFID are maintained in a separate and exclusive bank account. • Maintain separate books of account for the funds received under BGARP from DFID and record all transactions properly. • Monitor utilization of funds. • Maintain and update the unit’s procurement filing system, and ensure timely input of all relevant documents in their respective files for audit purposes confirming to the audit procedures laid down in the project • Assist the external periodical audit and supply all up to date information. • Any other financial matter and carry out any other periodic duties that may be assigned by the Team Leader • Provide support to BIPARD to improve its financial management and accounting systems.
